An Albuquerque Academy junior who created a clinic to introduce Black youth to tennis has been recognized for her efforts with one of the highest distinctions in Girl Scouting — the prestigious Gold Award . Naomi Brundage welcomed a group of Black students who had little prior exposure to the sport to the Albuquerque Academy Racquet Center for a one-day tennis clinic in February . Brundage named the event Arthur Ashe Day , honoring the legendary tennis champion and civil rights advocate whose legacy continues to inspire generations on and off the court..

Clinton was president on April 19, 1995 , when a truck bomb exploded, destroying a nine -story federal building.

168 people were killed, including 19 children.

Clinton will deliver the keynote address at a remembrance ceremony near the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum .

He was widely praised for how he helped the city grapple with its grief in the wake of the bombing.

Judge William Alsup is overseeing a lawsuit brought by labor unions and nonprofits contesting the mass firings of thousands of probationary workers in February .

In March , Alsup ordered six federal agencies to reinstate probationary employees because their terminations were directed by the Office of Personnel Management .

The U.S. Supreme Court last week blocked Alsup ’s order requiring the administration to return those terminated employees.

An Italian appeals court has upheld life sentences for a Pakistani couple convicted of murdering their 18-year-old daughter.

The case shocked many Italians and became a symbol of the brutal mistreatment of immigrant women.

Saman Abbas , whose body was found at a farmhouse in 2022 , was killed with the participation of the whole family.

Abbas had emigrated as a teenager from Pakistan to the farm town of Novellara in Italy 's northern region.

Pakistan has deported more than 19,500 Afghans this month , among more than 80,000 who have left ahead of a 30 April deadline.

Pakistan has accelerated its drive to expel undocumented Afghans and those who had temporary permission to stay.

Between 700 and 800 families are being deported daily , Taliban officials say, with up to two million people expected to follow in coming months .

Some expelled Afghans say they had been born in Pakistan after their families fled conflict.

At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government.

The cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks .

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced that it was awarding $ 411,000 to more than a dozen tribal nations and organizations working to illustrate the impact of boarding schools.

More than half of those awards have since been terminated.

The grant cuts were documented by the non-profit organization National Humanities Alliance .

K2-18b is the first planet in the 18th planetary system found by the extended NASA Kepler mission, K2 .

It is about eight times more massive than Earth and has a volume that’s about 18 times larger.

Astronomers think it could either be a mini- Neptune or a rocky planet with no water but a massive hydrogen atmosphere, called a gas dwarf.

In a hycean world, water would be trapped in the deeper and warmer atmosphere.

New data show a stronger but still relatively weak signal that the team attributes to DMS or a very similar molecule.

Daniel Apai : Is life out there? Does this mean that scientists have found life on another world? Perhaps but we still cannot be sure. The new measurements may lead researchers toward a historic discovery, he says.

Michigan State baseball defeated Ohio State 11 -4, fueled by 17 hits and three home runs.

The win was the fourth straight for the Spartans , who seem to have gotten their season back on track after a five -game losing streak in early April .

The Spartans are trying to make their way into the postseason Big Ten tournament, an event they've only reached once 2019 .

Redshirt-sophomore Tate Farquhar earned the win Friday , allowing just one hit and striking out a career-high five in four innings. MSU has two more games against Ohio State — a 3:30 p.m start on Saturday and at 1 p.m. on Sunday — and four more Big Ten series in the regular season , starting with three games in Ann Arbor against Michigan next weekend . Contact Nathaniel Bott at [email protected] and follow him on X @Nathaniel_Bott.

Most AmeriCorps volunteers have been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, according to a staff member and an internal memo shared with The Associated Press .

The dismissal of young volunteers came as the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency make cuts to government workforce and services.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his state would sue to stop the program's dismantling.

The Lorton Reformatory was a prison that housed inmates from Washington , D.C. Many suffragists were held after the Silent Sentinels pickets at the White House in 1917 .

The old prison's cafeteria was converted into a community space for residents.

The name Liberty Crest Apartments is an homage to the property's history.